ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,186, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NINTENDO Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system" was invented by Kazuhide Ueda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual surface is generated on the basis of a collision for contact determination. Furthermore, a polygon mesh associated with a first texture is associated with the virtual surface. When a predetermined range targeted by a color update event overlaps the collision, color at coordinates on a second texture associated with the virtual sur...